Handelspolitik - PowerShift

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EU Council meeting in Brussels: PowerShift calls for halt to Latin America free trade agreements

From Vanessa Fischer / 21.03.2023 Comments Disabled

Date: Wednesday 22 March 2023, 11 a.m. Address: Before the Chancellery Berlin, 21 March 2023: On the occasion of the European Council meeting in Brussels from 23 to 24 March [...]

Opinion: CETA Ratification Act

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Opinion: CETA Ratification Act

From Anne Bundschuh / 29.06.2022 Comments Disabled

Statement on the draft of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK) for a CETA ratification law Preliminary remark: An association participation with a feedback period of less than 23 hours does not allow a comprehensive and detailed opinion...

Politically controversial, weak content: The China-EU Investment Agreement

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Politically controversial, weak content: The China-EU Investment Agreement

From Merle Groneweg / 18.02.2022 Comments Disabled

The investment agreement between China and the EU is highly controversial – and its future uncertain. Whether and when it will be ratified by the European Parliament is unclear. Nevertheless, [...]

Toxic business – with the EU-Mercosur agreement

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Toxic business – with the EU-Mercosur agreement

From Bettina Müller / 13.11.2020 Comments Disabled

More pesticides, less rainforest and more sick people – these are the imminent consequences of the EU's trade agreement with the four Mercosur countries: Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. With the agreement [...]

Travel guide: EU Mercosur: Ahead of the (climate) crisis

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Trade and investment policy Climate policy publication

Travel guide: EU Mercosur: Ahead of the (climate) crisis

From Bettina Müller / 29.10.2020 Comments Disabled

The travel guide "EU-Mercosur: Forward into the (climate) crisis" leads to the most popular destinations of European products, destroying industries in Mercosur and further heating the climate. Come with us on [...]

Open letter on the EU-Mercosur agreement

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Open letter on the EU-Mercosur agreement

From Bettina Müller / 30.06.2020 Comments Disabled

Shortly before the start of the EU Council Presidency and on the anniversary of the political agreement of the EU-Mercosur Agreement, 60 organisations of the German and 265 civil society organisations from the [...]

Integrating environmental and climate protection into trade agreements

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Integrating environmental and climate protection into trade agreements

From Fabian Flues / 11.05.2020 Comments Disabled

How trade agreements contribute to a more sustainable global economy could in many cases jeopardise ambitious environmental and climate protection. But that doesn't have to be the case. A variety of proposals exist, such as trade agreements...

Analysis of the Agreement between the European Union and Mercosur

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Analysis of the Agreement between the European Union and Mercosur

From Dr. Luciana Ghiotto and Dr. Javier Echaide / 16.01.2020 Comments Disabled

On 28. In June 2019, after 20 years of negotiations, the European Union and the Mercosur countries of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay [...]

EU Mercosur: Attack on climate protection and human rights

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Trade and investment policy Climate policy publication

EU Mercosur: Attack on climate protection and human rights

From Thomas Fritz / 23.09.2019 Comments Disabled

The consequences of the EU Association Agreement with Mercosur for people and the environment at the end of June, the negotiators of the EU and Mercosur announced a political agreement that will mark the imminent end of the [...]

Can trade policy protect the environment?

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Can trade policy protect the environment?

From Louisa Prause / 29.08.2019 Comments Disabled

The sustainability chapters in EU trade agreements For many years, consumer protection organisations, environmental associations and trade unions, as well as political decision-makers, have criticised the fact that the EU's trade policy...